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4-pass differential insar question (DInSAR)
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23 Oct 2012 01:35 PM
    Hello, Is it possible to combine ERS2 and Envisat data for 4-pass differential InSAR (DInSAR)? Specifically can I have the following combinations: Master 1: ERS2 Slave 1: ERS2 Master 2: Envisat Slave 2: Envisat I realize that mixing Envisat and ERS 2 within the same master/slave combination would be problematic. But since M1/S1 create DEM1 and M2/S2 create DEM2 + deformation , it would make sense that these could be combined in the above mentioned way. I have managed to combine ERS2 and Envisat in the above mentioned way and I get no errors and the process completes without problems. I'm just wondering if I can trust the results. One question I would have concerns multilooking since they would be different between the two master/slave pairs. Envisat is typcially 5:1 and ERS2 is 6:1. For this to work, I'm assuming it would have to multilook each master/slave combination differently. Thanks.

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    25 Oct 2012 10:36 AM
    I wasn't sure about this, so I asked the SARscape developers, one of whom told me: "SARscape *is* able to perform cross interferometry ERS-ASAR, but only as standard interferometry (not stacking and 4 pass, for the moment). And only when the data can be interferometrizable (when they have a particular baseline). Anyway, your trials are correct, because in this case we don't speak of cross interferometry, because the pair are processed separately (Master1 and Slave1 ASAR, Master2 and Slave2 ERS, or vice versa), and this is the only configuration where you can "mix" together different sensors. The problem that I can see is the difference in the wavelength between ASAR and ERS, which can result in a small error in the conversion phase displacement (because we consider one of the two, and not separately). Regarding the multilooking, you cannot set different looks for the two pairs (the same happens for SBAS). So you might want to use as Master1 (in case of SBAS it would be the super Master) the one with lower spatial resolution. Also, the inaccuracy due to using a fixed value of wavelength should not be a big problem, but pay attention to whether the incidence angle is different between the ASAR and ERS pairs (because you were asking about the different number of looks). The only model you can use is the no-model, where only one pair contains a displacement. This is because you cannot mix different incidence angles." I hope this helps. - Peg Exelis VIS
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